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CVE-2021-24038: facebook oculus desktop Improper Privilege Management

CVSS: 7.8v3.1HighModified
Published 18-08-2021Last modified 03-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2021-24038 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in facebook oculus desktop. EPSS estimates a 0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.20%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 18-08-2021
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Due to a bug with management of handles in OVRServiceLauncher.exe, an attacker could expose a privileged process handle to an unprivileged process, leading to local privilege escalation. This issue affects Oculus Desktop versions after 1.39 and prior to 31.1.0.67.507.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 1 source · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.20%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

10%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.20% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.20%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Facebook1 product
Oculus1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

1 links